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We are in the series Out of Egypt.
We have seen God begin to give the Hebrews experiences so they would know who he is.
You have been rescued out of Egypt.
How would you describe what God is like?
Would you have a lot of experiences?
Localized God?
Take care of everyday needs?
What is God like?
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Out of our experiences… How does God want to be known?
This is very important.
Companies spend millions so people will see them in a certain way- … important what God is like
How did God prepare his people for the Mosaic Covenant?
Prepare, get ready, pay attention
Don’t try to go up the mountain to get information about God.
v. 12
Theology means “the science of God,” and I think any man who wants to think about God at all would like to have the clearest and most accurate ideas about Him that are available.
C. S. Lewis
God’s self-revelation more important than what we try to apprehend on our own.
Nature - that there is good and bad, longing for heaven that it exists
C. S. Lewis perhaps put it best: “If we find in ourselves a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
Bible - He reveals himself in his actions and by his word, teaching, commands
Don’t touch it 12b - does this mean god does not want us to know him?
holiness - God does communicate something about himself.
- power, separate, different.
Cant take him for granted.
Electrical Power Station- fences all around, Rail road crossing laws.
Nuclear power site.
Seriousness
V 14, focus- special set aside time
Exodus 19:16-19 lightening, thunder, smoke, shook violently Moses spoke with God
Not to be taken for granted
Rest of the verses - people or priests breaking through or God breaking out in anger
How did God prepare his people for Jesus, the Messiah?
Promised in the Old Testament was that God would make a new covenant.
Jeremiah 31:31
When we take the Lord’s Supper “This is the New Covenant in my blood”
Just the right time - Kairos
Was Jesus holy and set apart? Yes
Is there a separation?
No one comes to the Father except through me
How are you brought into this new covenant?
How does God prepare us for hearing him today?
Our culture today doesn’t like rules.
Especially religious rules— Dogma.
Because we don’t like dogma, we have low views of God.
The Mountain is not holy, Light shows.
For many of us, its not real.
So when we think, will God hear my prayers.
We think of the 7 Billion people on the planet and think of him answering all those prayers, and for us it look like the movie Bruce Almighty.
It’s not that God can’t, but that we cannot imagine how he could.
Listen, our view of God is too small.
There is part of the book of Ezekiel that speaks about God and his greatness, Jewish people were told they could not read it until they were 30.
Put aside time - Pray and seek him.
Quiet your world
Don’t tell God how he is going to be or what he is going to do.
Let him tell you.
Put yourself in a place where he can speak.
In his word, preaching, with other Christians.
(Majesty, thunder and rumbling) Expect that God is big enough to make a difference.
Then let God come down with how he wants you to know him and obey him.
God won’t come down with something for me … isn't that too much to expect?
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